INSTITUTE OF ROAD AND TRANSPORT TECHNOLOGY DEPARTMENT OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

MODEL TEST
SUBJECT: IT 1353 EMBEDDED SYSTEMS CLASS: IV YR / VIII SEM ANSWER ALL QUESTIONS 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10 . 11 . 11 . b. PART A (10 X 2 = 20) Define embedded systems. What is a charge pump? List the features of CAN bus. What are the characteristics of PCI bus? What is a cross compiler and why do you need it? What are the uses of semaphores? What is a pipe and how does it differ from a queue? What are the disadvantages of co-operative scheduling? Give the operation of a counting semaphore. What are the queue related functions? PART B (5 X 16 = 80) a. List and explain in detail about the hardware units that must be present in the embedded systems. (OR) Explain the various software tools involved in designing an embedded system. (16) (16) BRANCH: ECE DATE: 30/03/2010

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Tabulate the uses of timer device with applications and explanations. (16) (OR) Compare the characteristics of various buses used for networking of parallel devices. (16)

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Write a note on source code engineering tools and optimization of memory needs. (16) (OR) List the advantages of using various high level languages in embedded programming. (16)

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Explain in detail about the various strategies used in co-operative scheduling models. (16) (OR) Explain in detail about preemptive scheduling model (16)

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Draw and explain in detail about a case study involving VxWorks or MUCOS operating system. (16) (OR) Discuss with a diagram the task synchronization model for a specific application. (16)

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